Our lives are made up of decades, years, hours, minutes, and seconds, and there are 86,400 seconds in each day. Time is an immeasurably valuable commodity, a finite resource that we can spend, invest in, or waste just like money. We are all given a limited amount of time on earth to live, and then we die. In God’s grace and mercy, He knows when that time is for each person. As the awareness of sin marches on, the seconds of our lives tick away. Every one of those seconds is a step on the road to eternity.
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This approach to engaging the unsaved is an eternal tragedy in the making. Instead of warning people about the wrath to come, we give them a false sense of security through involvement in religious activities and programs. Or worse, we inadvertently encourage people to think they are good enough to escape it!
This article isn’t meant to make sensational predictions but to take Jesus’ repeated warnings seriously, and consider how we would transform the way we live if we knew He was going to return tomorrow.
A person’s average attention span is 8.25 seconds. Jesus warns us about the days ahead getting so bad, that people’s hearts will fail them because of fear of what’s coming. God will get the world’s attention.
I want to introduce you to someone who understands exactly what you’re going through and wants to walk with you through this life. His name is Jesus.
Have we been so collectively swayed by the church growth gurus, vision casters, and directional teams that we’ve taken our eyes off the great commission? Looking at conditions in much of modern Christianity, the answer is yes.
It is obvious that we have moved far beyond forced coercion to bake a cake or rent a wedding venue. Now Christians are being forced to keep silent and not share anything, including literature or speech, that could be deemed offensive to the LGBTQ community.
What I’m aiming for is a holy sense of urgency. Roughly 175,000 people die and go into eternity every day. People’s souls are literally hanging in the balance between heaven and hell. We don’t have a moment to waste.
If we are serious about reaching this world, let’s follow in the footsteps of Jesus and the apostles and preach where sinners gather. In thirty minutes, a good open-air preacher can reach more sinners than the average church does in twelve months!